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- 04/11/08 4:56 PM
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CBS' Craig Ferguson draws better weeklong ratings than NBC's Conan O'Brien for first time ever.
In the late-night talk-show ratings space, little has changed over the past years. Jay Leno's Tonight Show on NBC beats David Letterman's Late Show on CBS regularly, and Conan O'Brien's Late Night on NBC beats Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show on CBS all the time.
But things are changing. Last week marked the first time ever that Craig Ferguson's chit-chat show drew more viewers than Conan O'Brien's show over a weeklong period of original episodes.
Over the period, Late Late Show averaged 1.88 million viewers versus Late Night's average crowd of 1.77 million viewers, according to statistics from Nielsen Media Research. Conan kept his lead among the key demographics, however, taking a larger portion of the highly sought after 18-49 age group.
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson can be seen during the week at 12:35 a.m. on CBS.
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COMMENTS
okay well i love craig Ferguson's show it is hilarious!! Every show i find myself laughing and laughing.He does laugh at his own jokes though, but thats only because he knows that some of the stuff he says is stupid and he can't believe he said that. And his sketches are funny because they sometimes laugh in them. He's just a goof ball!!! And I love his accent it reminds me of Shrek!! Conan O'Brien i think is a little weird but when i do watch his show i laugh. But he's weird.
06/27/2008 16:53:51I've been watching him for over a year and in that time, I've got both my sisters watching the show. My evening is not complete until I watch the 'naughty Scotsman'. Have you seen his movie Saving Grace. Want to laugh, see this movie.
05/14/2008 00:01:32If you get the opportunity to go out to Southern California, get tickets and go to Craig's show. You will not regret it. Very personable and you never know who may be a guest on the show. I went to two tapings last year. My facial muscles took a few days to quit hurting from laughing so hard. Just remember not to let out any flatulence as there are microphones above you as well as under the seats... ;)
05/13/2008 09:01:33Wow... surprising, like really surprising. Craig Ferguson was funny on the Drew Carey show. That funny didn't translate to his late night show. I found myself spacing out and even... yes yawning @ some points of the show. No offence to him though. I'm an avid fan of Conan O'Brian. Go O'Brian conqueror the late night world. Paul standing bye!!!
04/25/2008 16:14:32Didn't Craig have better guests this week though? I forget...
04/21/2008 21:42:51Competition is always good!
04/14/2008 23:46:52Craig's so funny :)
04/14/2008 18:33:42Conan is good, a little too rude for my taste. I love Craig. His sense of humor runs parallel to mine. Good going Craig. (I just wonder what happened to the 'Cow of Time'. He hasn't been seen since Wolfgang Puck showed up with 'mini-burgers'. Did the eat him? %D
04/14/2008 16:56:06Both of these guys are great! Now, when are they gonna start broadcasting Craig's show in HD? I actually watch all four of these shows. Hooray for DVRs!
04/14/2008 16:48:30I used to like Conan but he isn't as good and Craig Ferguson laughs at his own jokes, and he isn't very good at sketches but I still like Ferguson. I still like O'brian too, but I don't really watch either I'm out on the weekends and if I'm up on week nights I'M watching something else. I can see how Leno would be Letterman, Letterman hasn't been good since NBC or maybe the first few years at CBS.
04/14/2008 12:13:03Conan's the best talk show host out there...extremely funny
04/14/2008 11:25:31I like them both actually. But I have to give the edge to Craig right now. Why? He's more entertaining, you never know what he's going to do and he appears in sketchs wearing costumes (funny stuff). He's developed some awesome characters (Prince Charles, Aquaman, Sean Connery and the perveted elevator man to name a few). He's willing to do whatever it takes to get a laugh.Also, Dave and Jay seem to have lost interest.
04/14/2008 00:26:41I've only been into Craig as Mr. Wick. Conan is the best late-night talk show host by far.
04/13/2008 08:24:08I've been a fan of Craig's ever since he was Roddy MacStew on Freakazoid, but always found his talk show to be slightly lacking. Conan, on the other hand...let's just say that the WGA strike was probably the best thing to happen to Conan in a long while, and I haven't even watched his show since it ended.
04/13/2008 06:49:16i like them both. i dont like how conan interviews people but i like his acts on the show. craig is a bit more professional.
04/12/2008 22:45:42[url=http://news.aol.com/entertainment/television/tv-news-story/ar/_a/ferguson-tops-obrien-for-first-time/20080411080709990002]News Source[/url] Also I'm pretty sure it doesn't make Craig look bad considering what a giant Conan has been and the fact that Craig's been doing it for 3 years since he took over Kilbourne.
04/12/2008 17:00:10good for craig, I hate conan
04/12/2008 09:58:40Yes! I love Craig, I think he is so much more entertaning than Conan. Plus his show is just so much funnier.
04/12/2008 09:01:09never seen Craig and only conan once or twice so i don't really care
04/12/2008 08:33:32I know it's weird but this week I have been watching Craig and not Conan. I just haven't been feeling like i'm up to Conan for some reason even though he's cool.
04/12/2008 06:50:59I love them both. But I'm happy for Craig.
04/12/2008 06:14:25Yay, I love Craig!
04/12/2008 05:01:51I'm very happy about this, Craig is my favourite since a long time.
04/12/2008 02:25:57I've seen the Late Late show and much prefer it! Well done!
04/12/2008 02:25:41Nooo!!
04/12/2008 00:57:22I love Conan a lot more.
04/11/2008 21:27:08I seem to recall seeing this new "first time" news once before. I think it was something along the lines of this time last year.
04/11/2008 20:46:24Conan was way better during the strike when he had to come up with his own material. Now that the writers are back it kinda sucks. Ferguson's hilarious because he's more improvisational and he has an awesome accent.
04/11/2008 20:21:28It's great to see people have a little taste! I got into Ferguson over the summer and he's hilarious!
04/11/2008 20:11:49i dont watch either but have seen craig on other thing and prefer him to conan
04/11/2008 19:58:58both shows are good but i think Conan loses on his unnatural monologues which most of the time falls flat... But those monologue are written by writers and not himself and Craig does his monologue more like a stand up rutine
04/11/2008 17:48:36Craig Ferguson's show is a lot funnier. IMO, Conan is kind of annoying. He seems very arrogant. Craig Ferguson hasn't been the host all that long so I can see why it's making news.
04/11/2008 17:35:40Craig Ferguson's show is way funnier than Conan's one... Still i find Conan is funnier than people give him credit for.
04/11/2008 17:22:14Um....so was there anything special about the episode? I mean, this is kind of "whoop-de-doo" kind of news......if anything it makes the Late Late Show look kind of bad, this long and it's the first time they have done it? and it's news worthy?
04/11/2008 17:11:38